Secrets of the Immortal: Advanced Teachings from A Course in Miracles

What if you could accelerate your spiritual progress so greatly that you would never have to "come back" to learn more lessons? Is it possible that a form of "advanced forgiveness", if fully understood and achieved, could bring you perfect peace? According to Gary Renard, all the instructions to transcend human suffering and dissolve the illusions of this world are contained in A Course in Miracles.

Fearless Love: The Answer to the Problem of Human Existence

Jesus, Buddha, and other wisdom masters understood how to love unconditionally - and reminded us that this is in fact our natural state of being. In Fearless Love, Renard invites you to courageously unlearn the habits of the ego and experience life like the great spiritual masters - in eternal harmony with all of humanity and God.

A Course in Miracles: Text, Vol. 1

A Course in Miracles, also known as "the Course" or ACIM, was scribed by Dr. Helen Schucman. It is a self-study course that aims to assist listeners, readers, and students in achieving spiritual transformation. Book 1: Text is largely theoretical, and sets forth the concepts on which the Course's thought system is based. Its ideas contain the foundation for the lessons in Book 2, the Workbook for Students.

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Living a Course in Miracles: An Essential Guide to the Classic Text

In 1976, a mysterious "Inner Voice" spoke to Helen Schucman, dictating what would come to be known as A Course in Miracles - a spiritual classic that would go on to sell over two million copies and influence countless people worldwide. Those who study this 1,333-page course can struggle for years to progress through its resonant but often difficult-to-comprehend truths.

The Secret to Attracting Money

The potential to attract money and create abundant wealth doesn't reside in your job, your circumstances, or even the economy. It resides within you. Your mind is equipped with the natural ability to attract as much money as you want and need - at anytime, anyplace, in any financial climate, without struggle. You just have to know how to trigger it.

A Course in Miracles Made Easy: Mastering the Journey from Fear to Love

A Course in Miracles (ACIM) - the self-study spiritual-thought system that teaches the way to love and forgiveness - has captivated the minds and captured the hearts of millions of people. Delivering inner peace where fear and pain once prevailed, its universal message is unsurpassed in its power to heal. Yet many students report that they have difficulty grasping the principles or keeping up with the lessons. So even while they yearn for the spiritual freedom the course offers, they put the book aside, hoping to get to it one day.

Lesson 101: Perfect Happiness: A Path to Joy from a Course in Miracles

Although it may require a lifetime of study to grasp, the best-selling A Course in Miracles has inspired millions. Perhaps its most essential lesson is 101: The belief that there is no sin and that God's will for us is perfect happiness. Longtime teacher Jon Mundy digs deeply into this concept, providing an insightful and clear path through one of the manual's most meaningful and complex lessons.

Eternal Life and A Course in Miracles: A Path to Eternity in the Essential Text

There is no bigger mystery, nothing more compelling than the desire to know about "life after life". Jon Mundy, the respected longtime teacher and interpreter of A Course in Miracles, now investigates that enigma using insights from the course on mortality, death, and the afterlife. Mundy discusses facing death and learning to let go, the ephemeral nature of the physical body and the eternal reality of the mind, and the reawakening of our Spirit as the one true home.

Inspiring Teachings on A Course in Miracles

>Marianne Williamson is one of millions of people whose lives have been transformed by A Course in Miracles, a self-study program of spiritual psychotherapy. For over 30 years, she has given regular talks and seminars based on course principles. Her first book, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles, has introduced millions of people to its concepts. Now, in this special program, Inspiring Teachings on A Course in Miracles, you'll hear six of her finest live lectures on the course.

A Course of Love: The Course

There is a way of knowing that can take you beyond where all your learning has taken you. It is the way of direct experience of truth. It is the way of the heart. It may be astonishing to hear that there is a continuation of A Course in Miracles, but it is true. Forty years ago, Jesus dictated ACIM to the scribe Helen Schucman. More recently, over three years, he similarly dictated A Course of Love to Mari Perron. Mari Perron is the channel. Students of ACIM will recognize the voice.

The Book of Mastery

The channeled literature of Paul Selig - who receives clairaudient dictation from unseen intellects called the Guides - has quickly become the most important and celebrated expression of channeling since A Course in Miracles rose to prominence in the 1970s. Selig's three previous books - I Am the Word, The Book of Love and Creation, and The Book of Knowing and Worth - have won a growing following around the world for their depth, intimacy, and psychological insight. The Book of Mastery provides a deeply practical prescription for heightening your abilities, aptitudes, and sense of personal excellence.

A Return to Love Workshop: The Basics of A Course in Miracles

On July 1-3, 2011, Marianne Williamson taught a workshop on A Course in Miracles in Los Angeles, California. The topic of the weekend was how miracles - shifts in thinking from fear to love - make all the difference in how we live and how we feel. Learning to think differently - to stand psychologically and emotionally on a different ground of being - is the spiritual journey from anxiety to inner peace.

A Mind at Home with Itself: How Asking Four Questions Can Free Your Mind, Open Your Heart, and Turn Your World Around

In A Mind at Home with Itself, Byron Katie illuminates one of the most profound ancient Buddhist texts, The Diamond Sutra (newly translated by distinguished scholar Stephen Mitchell), to reveal the nature of the mind and to liberate us from painful thoughts, using her revolutionary system of self-inquiry called "The Work". Byron Katie doesn't merely describe the awakened mind; she empowers us to see it and feel it in action.

Giving Up Illness Through 'A Course in Miracles'

Dr. Hawkins elaborates on his personal growth, physical challenges, and the different aspects of self-healing available through the power of A Course in Miracles. He shares his personal experience with alcohol and his journey "out of hell." Elaborating on how we are subject to only what we hold in mind, he takes us through his fascinating journey of self-healing.

Tears to Triumph: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment

Marianne Williamson is a best-selling author, a world-renowned teacher, and one of the most important spiritual voices of our time. In Tears to Triumph, she argues that we - as a culture and as individuals - have learned to avoid facing pain. By doing so we are neglecting the spiritual work of healing. Instead of allowing ourselves to embrace our hurt, we numb it, medicate it, dismiss it, or otherwise divert our attention so that we never have to face it.

Miracles at Work: Turning Inner Guidance into Outer Influence

In this unabridged recording of Miracles at Work - read by the author herself - Emily Bennington invites listeners to begin an adventure and fold their spiritual selves more fully into their professional lives. She merges principles of A Course in Miracles with mindfulness practices, emotional intelligence, and her own proven strategies for success. Miracles at Work is an exceptional guide to applying timeless wisdom to your career.

The Universe Has Your Back: Transform Fear into Faith

In her latest book, The Universe Has Your Back, New York Times best-selling author Gabrielle Bernstein teaches listeners how to transform their fear into faith in order to live a divinely guided life. Each story and lesson in the book guides listeners to release the blocks to what they most long for: happiness, security, and clear direction. The lessons help listeners relinquish the need to control so they can relax into a sense of certainty and freedom.

Being in Light

Marianne Williamson lectures throughout the world on A Course in Miracles, a self-study system of spiritual psychotherapy contained in three books. She teaches the basic principles of the Course and discusses their application to daily life. On Being in Light, Marianne encourages you to get in touch with your inner self by developing a profound understanding of concepts such as self-forgiveness, self-esteem, your authentic nature, vulnerability, spiritual enlightenment, and much more.

Publisher's Summary

What would you do if you were sitting quietly in your living room when a mysterious couple suddenly appeared from out of nowhere, and then told you they were "ascended masters" who had come to reveal some shocking secrects of existence and teach you the miraculous power of advanced forgiveness? Would you call the cops? Call a psychiatrist? Call out for pizza?

When two such teachers appeared before Gary Renard in 1992, he chose to listen to them. (And ask a lot of questions.) The result is this startling audiobook: An extraordinary record of 17 mind-bending conversations that took place over nearly a decade, reorienting the author's life, and giving the world an uncompromising introduction to a spiritual teaching destined to change human history.

I already read the text prior to purchasing the audio book, so my expectations as to the content were already set. The book reads quickly (took me about a day) and its message is solid. In contrast, the audio book (in my opinion) is rather loathsome to listen to. Something was certainly lost in the translation from print to audio.

As another reviewer mentioned, the person who plays the part of Arten has a radio announcer voice; while Pursah is played by Doreen Virtue, a familiar voice (if one listens to Hay House Radio). I think those two factors diminished the content considerably. They took away from the message more than they gave.

The only believable person in the audio book is Gary Renard himself. Then again, it was he who had the actual experience; not the other two.

However, as I considered it, I realized that this was one of those situations where I would be called upon to forgive. Could it have been done better? Without question it could have. Yet how many of us could have done it perfectly? Probably none.

Let this be a lesson to us all who seek the Truth: We screw up even the purest of messages with our own hands, try as we might to do otherwise. It is almost inevitable. Best to forgive it and take the content of what we're given; leaving the form behind.

If you're averse to reading a 150,000 word book, this audio format is just fine. The content is all there, just as it is in the book, and the audio quality is high and well recorded. But if you've heard Doreen and the other guy before, one can't help but be distracted by them.

I think the author should seriously consider redoing this book using real actors; perhaps ones with a heavy spiritual inclination, in order to capture the essence of not only the message, but of his overall experience.

I love this book because it is inspirational and life-altering. I must have listened to it 20 times, each time understanding and applying the principles set forth to a greater degree. It a good read and a tool for transformation.

I enjoyed this. I'm still a little confused as far as the ending is concerned and not 100% sure I buy into the whole story (and I have a very open mind), but it will definetely get you thinking. Either Gary Renard is one of the great New Age con men of our time, or a great messenger. You decide.

The content of "The Disappearance of the Universe" includes some eye-opening and worthwhile concepts for students of New Age spirituality. It frankly acts as a sort of advertisement for and clarification of "A Course in Miracles," but its ideas are certainly available to anyone, regardless of their exposure , to the earlier work.

The audiobook, however, is a perfect example of What Not To Do. The author, whose voice is so nasal and sinusy as to border on the loathesome, has insisted on reading his own work. Another spiritual author, Doreen Virtue, reads the part of Persa, the female spiritual guide, while an obviously professional reader, with a slick, radio-type announcer voice, reads the words of Arten, the male spiritual guide, and makes them sound like an infomercial.

The mix is so bizarre as to make the content difficult to approach. Fortunately, the sections the author reads are very brief, and the more listenable voices of the other two readers constitute the majority of te work.

Don't listen with good earphones unless you want to know all about the sinus condition of the author. Sorry, Audible: this is one I wish I'd bought on paper and read with my eyes, 'cause my ears are annoyed.

I had tried to read A Course in Miracles years ago but simply could not understand the text and always put it down. This audio program helped open my eyes to what the book was trying to say and got me interested in reading it again.

The audio is well done, and while Gary doesn't have the professional public speaker type voice he does a good job of narrating.

If you were curious of a course in miracles or had tried to study the course and found it difficult to follow I recommend this audio as a good primer.

Gary Renard's book "The Disappearance of the Universe" set me on a path that has been life changing in only a few short months. It is an increditable ride that takes you from disbelief to Truth. My outlook on life and God has changed forever.
Carla

No. Poorly read. The subject was interesting, but the Readers were horrible. I might recommend the Hardcopy Book.

What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?

The 'Universe' concept was interesting.Wisecracking Ascended Masters?

How did the narrator detract from the book?

The Author's voice was uninspiring.The female Reader started out bad, you could hear her stumbling over commas, though she grew more proficient by the end of the book.The male Reader didn't start out too bad, but was emoting like the announcer in a commercial by the end of the book.

Did The Disappearance of the Universe inspire you to do anything?

I'll probably listen to A Course in Miracles, so I guess this book did its job.I wonder if I can return this Book to get the money to buy the one it was advertising.

Any additional comments?

If those two clowns are Ascended Masters, I think I'll take up Buddhism.

Has The Disappearance of the Universe turned you off from other books in this genre?

no

Would you be willing to try another one of the narrators’s performances?

no the narration was HORRIBLE!! all three of them are horrible. one sounds like Christopher Walken as a computer that breathes heavily, the other guy sounds like a movie announcer and then there is Doreen Virtue. LOL

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

the story and the attempt at being funny was a bit disappointing. the way it is presented makes it very hard to believe. he conveniently asks questions to try to convince the reader/listener that what is happening is real. the way the 2 "teachers" talk to him seem quite unbelievable. just seems like a big plug to buy the book Course in Miracles. he must have some connection to the original author.

This is the greatest book since the Bible, absolutely and without a doubt. The extraordinary experience that happened to Gary back in '92 has just got to be the most phenomenal personal awakening.

I won't give the game away, if you are reading this its because this is your calling to listen and be totally amazed!

I've been studying spirituality for 20 years and when I first heard this work I had not just one but many epiphanies! I has such a deep and power awakening with it that I also have the hard copy book of it too so that I can receive the information through as many ways as possible.

For me this answered every single question I've ever had! The author actually reads the main book himself which for me is the icing on the cake.

If you are searching - your search has ended and you've arrived. Prepare for your life to change in the most miraculous way.

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Neville Bartos

7/31/16

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"The Course (Coffee) DU (Chocolate Hobnob)"

One of the greatest books ever written. It truly changed my life. I'd recommend it to anyone. It really is a book for everyone. If you're struggling to fully understand A Course in Miracles, then read this first.

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Southend On Sea, United Kingdom

7/8/13

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"An interesting take on Christianity"

Is there anything you would change about this book?

Narrators voice is a bit robotic, although I do like the fact that it is the genuine author.

What did you like best about this story?

Gives you a taste of avenues you may want to pursue in finding out a more factual take on events with Christ, rather than just a 'bilble-ised' version.

Would you listen to another book narrated by the narrators?

Yes, if it had similar content on the same subject, although I would say that it could be narrated better.

Do you think The Disappearance of the Universe needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?

Yes, because it leaves unanswered questions, did he pursue that he may have been hallucinating. Did his wife every get to meet the same people who are central to his book. What were the 365 daily insight's of wisdom that are meant to help us on our way to god?

Any additional comments?

Essentially good subject matter, even interesting whether it was a manifestation of his mind rather than a visitation. Good have been presented a little better, author has a kind of robotic Stephen Hawkins ring to his voice which is a bit hard to listen to continually.That being said, I did pretty much listen to it end-to-end in one day, so it wasn't impossible to listen to.

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Christina

Ireland

4/20/17

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"5 stars are not enough"

I've read the book a few years ago and now I listened to the audiobook. There are no words to describe how good this made me feel. Thank you Gary for this amazing work!

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"unknown"

1/28/17

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"Awful voice overs"

I couldn't continue listening as the voices were terrible . Very childish and the choice of language was unbearable.

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Mrs I A Thompson-Souto

1/28/16

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"I couldn't switch it off!"

Some of the most exciting material I heard so far. I am a student if A Course in Miracles and I haven't always completely understood each lesson. This audio has put the entire course into perspective and something has clicked! Loved the content, delivered with humility and humour. I shall be listening to this over and over as well as Gary's other titles.

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